exactly what it says on the tin

among many other things.

[bogleech]

Why are there just blobs of fake rubber meat that a bunch of unrelated microbes can build in the dirt but they've only ever been found in china and can't be classified any further than "biological objects"

[anothercrankyblogger]

Also, props to Tom Holland, honestly. Whatever flaws there may be with his character, between 2016 & 2026 he has truly captured the Zillenial Experience.

[ampervadasz]

[thecatalogues]

Kitty!... long leg kitty!.. uh, creechur?... OUPPY

[slavetomyheadcanon]

I WAS NOT FUCKING PREPARED

[anothercrankyblogger]

The Home Trilogy, as well as the cross-over films that surround it, are an experiment wherein John Watts, John Favreau, and Kevin Feige ask the foundationally flawed question: How much makeup does it take to make Robin look like Spider-Man?

Brand New Day is, to my mind, the first of these seven outings in the MCU to actuall sit down and ask itself: Alright, who is Peter Parker? and to actually have a devoted interest in answering that question.

It has its flaws. The plot is a mess. But its the first one that I can actually take a serious look at and say, yeah, I actually kinda vibe with this.

[goslinggf]

um...exsqueak me ?

[anothercrankyblogger]

I'm absolutely convinced that if The Pilgrim's Progress were written today, there would be a character named Cope.

[kineticpenguin]

Kalshi Defends Plan to Bet on Lives of Cancer Patients

Users on Kalshi will even allow users to bet on whether drug trials for potentially lifesaving drug trials will succeed.

“The possibility that somebody out there might be wagering against my son, hoping that the treatment fails so they can make money, is enraging,” Pederson wrote. “How is this not just another type of ‘death market’ — like markets for war or assassination — that even Kalshi says it won’t abide?”

[anothercrankyblogger]

I do find it somewhat deliciously ironic that Rand Paul, one congress' leading libertarians (people who will whinge about their "personal liberties" 'til you're about ready to make Stalin look like a pacifist) would vote to have a man arrested for exercising his constitutional right to use of the Fifth Amendment.

[anothercrankyblogger]

Hear Me Out: Curse of Strahd played out in the fashion of The Castle of Cagliostro.

[raevenlywrites]

Its me, your feral godmother

[raevenlywrites]

*waves a wand and grants you the teeth and claws to fuck your evil step family up*

[raevenlywrites]

Good luck kid you're in a reverse beauty and beast situation. Do not let that princely motherfucker fall in love with your inner humanity or the spell will fail and you'll turn human again

[raevenlywrites]

Good news if you bite his ass you can start a pack together. Go forth. Enjoy the ball

[raevenlywrites]

You can bite a princess too if you want. Or a milkmaid, or a butler or whatever. Go nuts. The more the merrier

[raevenlywrites]

#misread as feral hogmother

That's my girlfriend, she's rooting for you too

[raevenlywrites]

#investing at 70 notes

That is the nicest thing anyone has ever said about a post of mine that wasn't an addition to a post of someone else's XD

[raevenlywrites]

#posts that will become Tumblr heritage

I wish. I don't think it's even gonna crack 500 notes

[anothercrankyblogger]

Abdul El-Sayed has won the Michigan primary, but the margins do not speak to great chances in the November elections. El-Sayed has taken the nomination, but he has taken it by less than 1%. There are 725,000 Michigan Democrats he could not win over, and considering the heated nature of El-Sayed's positions and the deep cut divide between the left and the center of the party, there is no guarantee that those 725,000 voters will turn out for him come the Midterms. Worse still, the "Vote Blue No Matter Who" crowd may very well "Vote Red, Never Sayed."

It's still an uphill battle for the GOP. The party has thuroughly tied itself to Donald Trump, and that decision has come to haunt them now that the President is underwater nationwide. In many races, affiliation with Trump has become a mark of ill omen. Furthermore, Republicans have held the infamous reputation of being the Party of Big Business for a hundred years, and with the addition of wartime gas prices and Trump's nonsenical tarrif regime, it's going to be very hard for any Republican to convince voters that they have the answers to their economic woes.

But while this may clear a path to victory for the likes of James Talarico or Troy Jackson, it's not the same story for El-Sayed. Every other race in America may be about Donald Trump, but the race in Michigan will be about El-Sayed himself. He is a Muslim, he is vehimently anti-Israel, and this is a suite of features that to this day does not sit well with many Americans. He has enemies that are capable of spending tens of millions of dollars, if not more, to paint him as an Islamic extremist and to play on the worst impulses of the voting public. There are many Americans who are not going to be swayed by AIPAC propaganda, but last night clearly shows that even within El-Sayed's own party, there are still many people who see him as unacceptable.

This entire race comes down to whether or not those 725,000 Stevens voters will value party loyalty over their personal values. In something of an ironic twist, it's an inversion of the usual scenario, wherein progressives are continually asked to set aside everything they believe in to support the right wing of the party. Will the moderates and center-right be willing to do the same now that it is asked of them? I doubt it.

[memewhore]

[decellie03]

nothing will ever be funnier to me than the 30-50 feral hogs joke phase, I think about it at least once a week

[dripped-in-my-pearls]

Happy 30-50 feral hogs day

[msilverstar]

World heritage post

[afloweroutofstone]

This post is funny in retrospect because feral hogs are basically the only legitimate reason to own an assault rifle. It is the one and only real problem faced by anyone in the US that can be solved with a semi-automatic weapon that has more muzzle energy than a handgun. It’s just easy to ridicule because it sounds silly to the people who don’t live in areas with wild hogs (most of the country).

[heatherwitch]

Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” that was written in 1950 is set on the day of August 4th, 2026 (tomorrow)!! Now’s your chance to read it around the time it’s based in!

Audio: A recording of Leonard Nimoy reading it on Internet Archive.

Text: A PDF version.

Graphic Novel: On Internet Archive.

[unamccormack]

I used to set this one for second year undergraduate creative writing seminars on writing science fiction on a double bill with Octavia E. Butler's "Bloodchild" and no-one here gets out alive.

[regionalpancake]

!!!! Today is the only chance we’ll ever have to listen to this absolute banger of apocalyptic fiction on the very day the story is set 😲✨

Nemoy’s voice is PERFECT in this!

(A content warning if you do listen - the dog dies, though it’s not super graphic)

[regionalpancake]

I paused the robot vacuum so I could listen to this 1950’s story predicting the robot vacuum.

[zoesupreme]

had to look this up bc I thought it was a joke

[zoesupreme]

if he had been there it wouldn't have gone down like that

[islamprotestan-blog]

only 5 seconds

[zanyflowerpizzatrash]

i wasn't ready for that..lol

[suffer-no-humiliation]

Immediately recognized that look

[anothercrankyblogger]

It's been a while but tbh I'm kinda getting tired of the whole discussion about Obssession and "the modern male." And in general, it's kind of drawn my attention to a much wider problem that I'm also really tired of.

Like, Bear is just a guy, I'm sorry. There's not anything special that's wrong with him, he's just a guy. He's a guy who wished that someone he loves loved him back, a completely normal thing to do, but is too selfish to successfully navigate what happens next. He's not a "beta male" or a "nice guy" or an "incel." He's just a regular guy, in irregular circumstances, who ultimately finds he doesn't want to put his own wants aside for the needs of someone else. He's a very normal jerk.

And really, I think this whole conversation is a byproduct of something bigger and worse. We've developed this sort of culture online where everyone has to be absolutely perfect all of the time, and if they ever slip up, they're to be categorized as one of "the bad ones" and cut out of society forever. A teenage boy who has some insecurities about women and relationships is an "incel." A middle aged woman who's just run out of patience on any given day is a "karen." Any degree of ignorance to fucking graduate level social studies could make you a "chud."

We've stopped seeing people as people, I guess I mean. There's no room for flaws. There's me and the good people I know, and there's a sea of ugly horrible monsters who are all out to get me. It's very conservative, in its way. Don't let strangers in. Build That Wall, but paint in therapy speak so I don't have to feel like "one of the bad ones".

I dunno.

[ostolero]

these guys ruled the world at the start of the 21st century